This week, the Bank of Canada boosted rates by another 0.25% and signalled that they will now pause and evaluate. I’ve been calling that the rate hike hiatus. As I touched on two weeks ago, inflation is moving in the right direction and the consumer is holding up quite well. It’s a Goldilocks scenario, for […]
It’s the big Canadian bank week on the Sunday Reads.
And I’m back on MoneySense, making sense of the week. The weekly column was led by the big Canadian banks who all reported this past week. Thanks to Dan from stocktrades.ca for helping with that analysis. Banks are showing to somewhat be a hedge in the rising rate environment. The banks benefit from favourable net […]
The defensive Canadian big dividend portfolio on the Monday Reads.
Canadian investors love their big dividends. The Canadian high dividend approach can also be arranged to create a more defensive portfolio. That can have a meaningful benefit for a retiree and for those who desire to own a portfolio with less volatility. That lower risk portfolio can be easier to handle in troubling times. Experiencing […]
Our U.S. and Canadian stock portfolio outperforms when it counts.
For U.S. stocks, my wife and I hold 17 Dividend Achievers, plus 3 stock picks. In Canada, I hold the Canadian Wide Moat 7, while my wife holds a Canadian High Dividend ETF – Vanguard’s VDY. There is also a modest position in the TSX 60 – XIU. The U.S. and Canadian stocks both outperform […]
The U.S. stock market is looking for another double digit return hat trick, on the Sunday Reads.
The U.S. stock market is likely about to offer a rare event, three consecutive years of double digit returns. That hat trick has occurred 9 times over the last 90 years. U.S. stocks offered a 31% return in 2019, in 2020 they kicked off the decade with an 18% return. We are currently over 25% […]
Pipelines delivering the dividends, on Sunday Reads.
My two longest continuous stock holdings are Enbridge and TC Energy, formerly TransCanada pipelines. I’ve held them for 15 years or so. That’s not necessarily a long time period for an investor, but my personal investment history is quite short. I was essentially wiped out by a business ‘partner’ at age 30. I had to […]